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most citedAbinit 2025: New Capabilities for the Predictive Modeling of Solids and Nanomaterials

28 citations · 52 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Fine-Tuned Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials for Structural and Vibrational Properties of Twisted 2D Materials

Viet-Anh Tran, Viet-Hung Nguyen, Wei Chen +2

Twisted van der Waals bilayers form moiré superlattices whose structural and vibrational properties are highly sensitive to variations in local stacking registry and the degree of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Towards Automated Discovery: A Review of Generative Models, Multimodal Learning and Closed-Loop Workflows in Inverse Materials Design

Anand Babu, Rogério Almeida Gouvêa, Gian-Marco Rignanese

Inverse materials design is shifting materials discovery from forward prediction toward targeted proposal of candidates that satisfy objectives under physical constraints. Here, we…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

VibroML: an automated toolkit for high-throughput vibrational analysis and dynamic instability remediation of crystalline materials using machine-learned potentials

Rogério Almeida Gouvêa, Gian-Marco Rignanese

While machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) accelerate phonon dispersion calculations, merely identifying dynamical instabilities in computationally predicted materials is…

cs.DB2026

optimade-maker: Automated generation of interoperable materials APIs from static datasets

Kristjan Eimre, Matthew L. Evans, Bud Macaulay +5

Atomistic structural data are central to materials science, condensed matter physics, and chemistry, and are increasingly digitised across diverse repositories and databases. Inter…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Machine Learning for Electrode Materials: Property Prediction via Composition

Hao Wu, Cameron Hargreaves, Arpit Mishra +1

In this work, we benchmark three leading composition based Machine Learning (ML) frameworks, MODNet, CrabNet, and a random forest model based on Magpie features, predicting the pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

A critical assessment of bonding descriptors for predicting materials properties

Aakash Ashok Naik, Nidal Dhamrait, Katharina Ueltzen +4

Most machine learning models for materials science rely on descriptors based on materials compositions and structures, even though the chemical bond has been proven to be a valuabl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

From Symmetry to Stability: Structural and Electronic Transformation in CsKInI

Mohammad Bakhsh, Victor Trinquet, Rogério Almeida Gouvêa +2

CsKInI is a promising lead-free halide double perovskite with a calculated direct band gap of 1.94 eV, ideal for solar cell applications. Our first-principles calculations…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

MEIDNet: Multimodal generative AI framework for inverse materials design

Anand Babu, Rogério Almeida Gouvêa, Pierre Vandergheynst +1

In this work, we present Multimodal Equivariant Inverse Design Network (MEIDNet), a framework that jointly learns structural information and materials properties through contrastiv…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

On the Role of Interlayer Electrons on the Frictional Behavior of Two-Dimensional Electrides

Jingcheng Qi, Giuliana Materzanini, Gian-Marco Rignanese +2

Friction accounts for up to 30% of global energy consumption, underscoring the urgent need for superlubricity in advanced materials. Two-dimensional (2D) electrides are layered mat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Combining feature-based approaches with graph neural networks and symbolic regression for synergistic performance and interpretability

Rogério Almeida Gouvêa, Pierre-Paul De Breuck, Tatiane Pretto +2

This study introduces MatterVial, an innovative hybrid framework for feature-based machine learning in materials science. MatterVial expands the feature space by integrating latent…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Generative AI for Crystal Structures: A Review

Pierre-Paul De Breuck, Hai-Chen Wang, Gian-Marco Rignanese +2

As in many other fields, the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping materials discovery by offering new ways to propose crystal structures and, in some cases…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 28 cited

Abinit 2025: New Capabilities for the Predictive Modeling of Solids and Nanomaterials

Matthieu J. Verstraete, Joao Abreu, Guillaume E. Allemand +71

Abinit is a widely used scientific software package implementing density functional theory and many related functionalities for excited states and response properties. This paper p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Lithium Intercalation in the Anisotropic van der Waals Magnetic Semiconductor CrSBr

Kseniia Mosina, Aljoscha Söll, Jiri Sturala +9

Alkali metal intercalation is an important strategy for doping van der Waals materials. Lithium, in particular, was shown to achieve exceptional charge carrier densities, reaching…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 7 cited

Accelerating the discovery of high-performance nonlinear optical materials using active learning and high-throughput screening

Victor Trinquet, Matthew L. Evans, Gian-Marco Rignanese

Due to their abundant use in all-solid-state lasers, nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals are needed for many applications across diverse fields such as medicine and communication. How…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Machine Learning on Multiple Topological Materials Datasets

Yuqing He, Pierre-Paul De Breuck, Hongming Weng +2

A dataset of 35,608 materials with their topological properties is constructed by combining the density functional theory (DFT) results of Materiae and the Topological Materials Da…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

A generative material transformer using Wyckoff representation

Pierre-Paul De Breuck, Hashim A. Piracha, Gian-Marco Rignanese +1

Materials play a critical role in various technological applications. Identifying and enumerating stable compounds, those near the convex hull, is therefore essential. Despite rece…

physics.data-an2024★ 3 cited

Datatractor: Metadata, automation, and registries for extractor interoperability in the chemical and materials sciences

Matthew L. Evans, Gian-Marco Rignanese, David Elbert +1

Two key issues hindering the transition towards FAIR data science are the poor discoverability and inconsistent instructions for the use of data extractor tools, i.e., how we go fr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

Optical materials discovery and design with federated databases and machine learning

Victor Trinquet, Matthew L. Evans, Cameron J. Hargreaves +2

Combinatorial and guided screening of materials space with density-functional theory and related approaches has provided a wealth of hypothetical inorganic materials, which are inc…